My guild has been running the retal build for a while with great success. This cd reduction makes it even sweeter. With 30 in tactics you would have ~6.5 second uptime at 10 second intervals. In addition to retal given by guardians you can conceivably have 100% uptime. You get what I’m saying?
How ‘bout Anet pays their employees to throw some polygons together and design new armor sets for a change. Reskins are a shady business practice. I’d rather wear transmuted starter armor than spend my money on this.
People just hate on Condi warriors cuz they lose to them. But honestly, I myself have been annihilated in my Condi build by many different classes. There’s a counter to everything. And if you ask me, the stun lock build is more trollish and mindless to play than any other build.
P.S. No one can tell you what is fun to play or not. No one…
I used settlers and rabid in that order when I began experimenting with conditions. Healing scales poorly , very poorly and precision doesn’t add much overall damage.
If you really want to be a threat out there on the battlefield, then go with dire. It’s the best hands down. If not, then rabid>settlers. Like I said, healing scales poorly with us warriors so you might as well take the precision.
The balconies will also mitigate the “interference” from bystanders should that be a problem in the stands area. But it all looks spacious enough to me that I don’t foresee that being an issue.
I was watching a guildie stream it and I can definitely tell everyone without a doubt that it’s bigger than the current gvg area.
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And about dynamics. I mean the current area is a strip of land next to a hill whereas this is a true arena that allows guilds to operate with more fluid movement akin to open field battles in wvw.
The 0.10.30.0.30 build isn’t going to be viable in the slightest after the December patch. They have always been great builds but with UF going to master tier it’s just going to be garbage to build a zerg warrior with 20 points into Arms. Not trying to trash what’s been suggested, but there’s more build variety out there than earth shaker crit spam.
I favor and use Beigarth’s (Knight’s). Knight’s is simply more adaptable to multiple builds. Berserker’s will require you to make up for lackluster stats harder than normal while Knight’s gives you (IMO) a better stat spread to work with.
They both serve their purposes well enough when used correctly. There is great cc on both. Pulls, warding, immobilize, knockback. Really great stuff here.
Let me also add that Mighty Blow on guardian hammer more than makes up for the slow auto attacks and long cd cc skills. I mean, who doesn’t appreciate 4k-6k crits every 5 or 4 seconds. Truely a beast in the right hands.
Got ganked in the IoJ jp by a couple EB a minute ago. Figured I’d take the ss for this DIE guy to see- that way he can remember it during the gvg when HOPE’s long Kitten is so far in his Kitten he can’t think straight. It will be nice meteoring him and his friends later this week.
Man, my armor looks so sick on your screen dude. Thanks, for putting me up there for everyone to see it. I appreciate it bro.
Oh, and I’ll be at the GvG, but you might still be pve’ing at the puzzle so…
I’ll be there…. waiting for you
Oh man I’m so glad you replied on here, I’m about to pm you in game to 1v1. Maybe it will turn out differently since I wont be at 25% hp from fall damage at the jp……………………. But you can always wait till the gvg to see me, I totally understand if you needa hide behind your guildies <3
Lol, I wasnt afraid to stay and fight the 30 FA blob that came to the rescue afterwards. what were u saying about hiding again?
Got ganked in the IoJ jp by a couple EB a minute ago. Figured I’d take the ss for this DIE guy to see- that way he can remember it during the gvg when HOPE’s long Kitten is so far in his Kitten he can’t think straight. It will be nice meteoring him and his friends later this week.
Man, my armor looks so sick on your screen dude. Thanks, for putting me up there for everyone to see it. I appreciate it bro.
Oh, and I’ll be at the GvG, but you might still be pve’ing at the puzzle so…
The runes give 5 stacks on interrupt and 3 stacks @ 20% chance on hit, plus the additional 4 stacks on interrupt if a warrior is traited for it. So here and there you may see 12 stacks on a single hit.
If some server want to buy your guild then you did a good job.
I suppose, but at the same time being bought should instantly destroy the guilds reputation, since they clearly don’t give a kitten about their server.
With Spvp being x-server and Pve having guesting/x-server dungeons what has Anet done to promote any server loyalty? Also guilds generally must have a pretty good reason for leaving a server. The times I have transferred the decision is made to leave before a destination is chosen.
SoR is losing because most of us don’t give a fuggin kitten anymore. Purchased guilds? Every server buys guilds. That’s not the issue. The BG/SoR problem is that BG coordinates with X server against us and SoR isn’t down with putting up with that for 6 out of 7 weeks or whatever it is. Uphill battle all season.
We will stay and fight 24/7 but gunning for 1st place ain’t gonna happen. I commend BG for the strategy they’ve implemented, even if it is shady. I mean, you guys used to be fun to fight but this is not enjoyable anymore.
Sad thing is that it’s all for a dumb dolyak finisher.
This has nothing to do with sor/bg. keep that garbage in the match thread AND we are talking about buying guilds here not 2v1’s. L2politic if thats your issue, but take it to a different thread.
Calm down broski. Every other comment here is focusing on the BG SoR debate anyway so don’t come down on me when everyone else is already talking about it. Keep YOUR garbage out by not policing the thread and actually contribute something. You got an attitude over nothing.
SoR is losing because most of us don’t give a fuggin kitten anymore. Purchased guilds? Every server buys guilds. That’s not the issue. The BG/SoR problem is that BG coordinates with X server against us and SoR isn’t down with putting up with that for 6 out of 7 weeks or whatever it is. Uphill battle all season.
We will stay and fight 24/7 but gunning for 1st place ain’t gonna happen. I commend BG for the strategy they’ve implemented, even if it is shady. I mean, you guys used to be fun to fight but this is not enjoyable anymore.
Sad thing is that it’s all for a dumb dolyak finisher.
You must be the GS warrior that runs from fights when you know you’re about to lose. Maybe you got hosed a little too fast? Wonder what would’ve helped in that case?
With 2800 armor, if 20, 30, or 40+ people come at you and alpha strike your group you are going to die really friggin fast. Dodging isn’t enough. You’re a heavy class. You need 3000 minimum. 3200 or higher is really what you should be running and you CAN tell the difference. Glass cannon spamming 1 doesn’t always work in all scenarios. Not trying to fuss. It’s just not beneficial to run light or medium class armor stats when you’re a frontline heavy that needs to stay alive as long as possible.
Strange to see anyone saying that SoR and BG doubled up on JQ. BG and JQ we clearly tag-teaming on Hills in JQBL all day yesterday. We all saw it. Been happening on all maps all week. Great effort and work tho. Good fights this week.
Regarding the PoV fix, it’s not breaking the class. I mean, Quick Breathing on Warrior was also removing 2 conditions and they fixed that, too. Nerf? Hardly. It’s how it should be now.
Full pvt for front line engagements. You can buy it all with badges and get the trinkets from temples with karma. Get VPT jewels on TP.
Now if you want to do more damage I suggest full Knight armor with “fill in the blank” power runes, cavalier trinkets w/ berserker jewels and berserker weapons. A little less survivability but more damage overall. x.×.30.30.x trait setup is standard in most cases. Condi cleanse with warhorn is a must , other traits you can swap as you please.
Edit: you can also swap 10pts from arms into strength for Great Fortitude (5% power as vitality) if you want a little more buff and power. If you ask me as well, +50% crit on stun is overrated in zerg play. We have 3 other hammer skills that do more damage and the majority of your enemy’s group is going to have stability active anyway. Just my opinion. Happy hunting.
Welcome back to the game. Much has changed my friend. What hasn’t changed however is the whining you will discover on these forums. Ignore it and have fun. May your quest bring you boundless reward. Good luck.
Question – has anyone noticed an increase in fps during heavy load when switching from wifi to a hard line connection?
I play on an Asus G75 with i7 3610m CPU and GTX660m and have 60+ fps in most places except for zerg, which in that case will dip to ~20 fps. I will try a wired connection tonight but last time I checked my bandwidth wireless bandwidth stretched into the 50mbps area.
Any thoughts or comments on that?
That is too be expected. Wired connections will ALWAYS be better then wireless.
True, but the real test – does it make a difference in THIS game, and more specifically the zergs.
Question – has anyone noticed an increase in fps during heavy load when switching from wifi to a hard line connection?
I play on an Asus G75 with i7 3610m CPU and GTX660m and have 60+ fps in most places except for zerg, which in that case will dip to ~20 fps. I will try a wired connection tonight but last time I checked my bandwidth wireless bandwidth stretched into the 50mbps area.
I can’t give you calculations, but I’ll put it this way.
Assassin = more crit hits, less crit damage done (less Power, more crit chance)
Berserker = less crit hits, more crit damage done (more Power, less crit chance)
Dependent on your build setup of course, but the way I see it these two stats more or less equal the same damage output overall.
I have crafted 2 ascended weapons, and will soon have a third. I won’t be worried if armor crafting piece by piece requires a similar crafting process. You don’t have to be a hardcore player to get this stuff IMHO.
I must say however, the new players will find the grind hard to endure, as the older players already have most of the mats saved up beforehand. Starting with little or no mats will suck.
Anet said yes. Only source there is that I know of is in the “upcoming changes and features” wiki page. Coming in the “second half of 2013”. That’s all I know.
Thought this was a “sigil with legendary-esque stats” post. That would be cool tho. “Legendary sigil of battle” – gain 25 stacks of might on any hit. Lol. Anyway yes it keeps stats.
Some time gated material is ok with me. I see the logic in it. But anything more and I get horrible memories of playing Eve Online, waiting and waiting for skills to train to level V. Some players here will know what I’m talking about.
As for the “too easy” part. I disagree. I think it’s fine where it’s at right now.
